 Hey everyone, oh boy. I actually knew about this story last week, but it slipped my mind because I was covering a bunch of other stuff, so big credit to Eurogamer for bringing this back to the light yesterday. It's nearly impossible to get to PlayStation 5, I'm sure you are aware of that at this point. There has been some restocks that have been going on. So I think today I think my local Walmart actually had some PS5's that were gone before I got there, not that it matters because I don't have the money to buy one right at this point, hopefully will this spring, but this is crazy. We have some fast and the furious level gang related robberies going on, high speed sort of robberies, depending on what you consider to be high speed. So let's just read this post. So this was posted by Wesley Yenpool, deputy editor, I like their names for the editors there. Gangs are hitting lorries on the run to steal PlayStation 5's, a new report has revealed. Over the weekend, The Times, which is paywalled, reported that deliveries of PlayStation's TVs, cosmetics, mobile phones, and cigarettes have been rated in recent months using a stunt known as the rollover. This involves gangs using multiple cars to box in a lorry, going at speeds of up to 50mph. One gang member climbs out, secured by rope, through a sunroof or modified hatch, then uses cutting tools or a crowbar to break into the lorry, climb aboard and throw out the goods. The Times said, the rollover has been used at least 27 times this year dating back to September, and that figure has risen in recent weeks as gangs attempt to cash in on pre-Christmas deliveries of expensive goods. Apparently, police have issued alerts to haulers over the tactic. The paper spoke to a career criminal who said gangs were focusing on goods in transit because of heightened security elsewhere in the supply chain. According to the report, several raids targeted luxury goods sold by department stores and belonging to tech companies. The Times quotes a former security manager at the Road-Hallage Association, who said gangs were getting inside information. Somebody must know when and where that vehicle is, and it can't just be random that you are going to attack that. Somebody has done some tipping off. The rollover stunt has been used by gangs to hijack lorries for years. In 2012, Romanian police released an astonishing video showing an attempt to rob a truck while speeding along a motorway in the dark. So this is night vision. So just take a look at this. The full screen that's for you guys. Maybe. Maybe. Let's open up a new tab. Now, this isn't a current robbery. This is from 2012. But this is just showing what it's kind of like. Yeah. This is the thing that people are doing. Now, I don't know if this is the wrong truck, because you're going to see they don't actually, they abandon stealing after they get the door open. I want to see this again. I wonder if they saw inside the truck and were like, oh, this wasn't the one we thought. Yeah, see, opens the door and then you realize, oh, this is the wrong truck. That's what I think happened. They opened it up and were like, oh, this is the wrong truck. Because they easily could have got in there and started stealing. So that's what we're dealing with. We're dealing with a situation where gangs who have been doing this for a while, predating PlayStation 5 are specifically targeting trucks carrying PlayStation 5s. That's the world we live in right now. Gangs are cashing in on the holidays, cashing in for PlayStation 5s. I mean, let's just look at the comments on this. I mean, yes, it's terrible. The criminals are extremely foolish and need to do this. But on the other hand, that is some fast and furious shit right there. Like, right? You watch Fast and the Furious and you're like, OK, yeah, this has probably happened before, but it's not that common, right? It can't be that common that high-speed robberies are happening of semi-trucks. Apparently, it's more common than you think. This is insane. You can't buy publicity like this. Microsoft are probably considering hiring an A-team to assault their delivery trucks. Like, look at the publicity this is for the person. Like, I don't know if this video is going to get much views. I have no idea. But this is insane. We have some fast and furious style robberies happening so people can cash in on PlayStation 5s. Because think about this. You know what's better than selling to PlayStation 5 for a $500 to potentially a $1,000 profit if you could somehow move it on eBay or Amazon or whatever for $1,500 to disk version? How about not paying for them at all and making a $1,000 profit guarantee because you're going to bare minimum move it for $1,000 to $1,200? Holy crap. Bit of a weird story to focus on PlayStation 5s. It seems like they don't care what they get. It's also about cosmetics and TVs. So to focus on the PlayStation 5 aspect, that is because in recent weeks it has picked up an increase. And when you dig further into the Times article, which unfortunately I can't show you. It's behind the paywall. It does specifically say that one of their sources is claiming a huge reason they're increasing right now is because they're trying to nab as many PlayStation 5 shipments as they can, specifically because PlayStation 5 has such a high turnaround rate right now. You can quickly, if you don't pay any money for it, list it for $900 and make a $900 profit, you get a truck full of hundreds of PlayStation 5s. I mean, you're talking $1,040, $50, $60,000 of profit depending on how many of those PlayStation 5s you get your hands on. So it's pretty insane. Now, obviously, one thing about stealing a lot of electronics, especially one that has to connect to the Internet like a PlayStation 5, it could be delisted by a PlayStation and blacklisted, but then you're affecting consumers that might be legitimately buying these systems through third-party websites. So it's a tough situation here where you don't really want to punish the consumer. You just want the gangs to be caught and broken up or whatever is happening in regards to this. Lowlice being lowlice, hope they've got a lot of cats to feed. Imagine the gangs would be upset after they robbed a PlayStation 5 so only to find out that they've got cat food. That was the one thing about that video they had from 2012 when they were caught was clearly what was in that truck wasn't what they hoped it was going to be. I will buy any game that I can do this in. Well, this is kind of like Grand Theft Auto sort of. If there's one the Daily Mail that picks up on this, I'd like the manna from Heaven. They can complain about eBay ripoffs for consoles. Then link to how video games like GTA inspired crime and immigrants because, well, what the hell is going on in this comment section? You can have this for your weekend article. Someone should be okay about this. This is such an insane story. And it shouldn't be shocking. In the world we live in in 2020 is this shocking. PlayStation 5's are being jacked. Fast and the Furious style. And, well, I'm speechless. I'm kind of laughing. It's not funny. It's funny to me because it's actually happening. But it's really not that funny. Consumers are being greatly affected by this in the countries it's happening in. I'm sure I won't be surprised to happen in the United States. But if you think about it, the supply chains have gotten really secure for these devices over the years. There's a lot of security and a lot of checkpoints at warehouses now. There used to not be as many, but now there's a lot just due to issues that have come at warehousing. And there's a lot of security and stuff going on, obviously at the retail end. And even when it comes to delivery trucks, because we talked about how PlayStation 5's and FedEx workers were potentially stealing PlayStation 5's. It's very difficult for a standard employee to steal a PlayStation 5, but not impossible. So even if they were stealing PlayStation 5's, it wasn't as easy as some people made it out to be because of the tracking of the package. There's certain things where they would have to give it to somebody or drop it off somewhere along their route. Because they can't leave the route because that gets suspicious. So it's very interesting to see this happening in this way. Because the weakest link is going to be when it's on the road between warehouses to get to the stores or to get to the warehouses off the boats. It's going to be the weakest link there is to get a hold of this stuff. So I'm both impressed, but also like, what a crappy thing to happen to us consumers. Oh man, now you have to start wondering how many of those scalpers out there actually paid for the systems? Or if they're as fast as the Furious, jacking them and selling them. Man, what a world. Alright folks, I'm Duthey and RoboJance from The Dinner Prime. Hope you enjoyed this video. And I'll see you guys in the next one.